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Rhea Ripley
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Australian professional wrestler
Film & TV
Adelaide, Australia
Demi Bennett, better known by her ring name Rhea Ripley, is an Australian professional wrestler who made her NXT debut in the 2017 inaugural Mae Young Classic, later winning the 2018 NXT UK Women’s Title Tournament and becoming a one-time NXT Women’s Champion in 2019. She made her main roster debut for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on Raw in 2021, where she became a one-time WWE Women’s…
Known for
- Saturday Night's Main Event: January 24, 2026 — Rhea Ripley2026
- Royal Rumble 2026 — Rhea Ripley2026
- Elimination Chamber: Post-Show — Rhea Ripley2026
- Elimination Chamber — Rhea Ripley2026
- WWE WrestleMania 42 – Sunday — Rhea Ripley2026
- Saturday Night's Main Event XLIV — Rhea Ripley2026
- WWE Clash in Italy — Rhea Ripley2026
- WWE Raw on Netflix Premier Post-Show — Rhea Ripley2025
- WWE Best of Raw 2024 Special — Rhea Ripley2025
- WWE Elimination Chamber 2025: Toronto — Rhea Ripley2025
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Key facts
- Born
- Demi Bennett , ( 1996-10-11 ) 11 October 1996 (age 29) , Adelaide , South Australia , Australia
- Spouse
- Buddy Matthews ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2024 )
- Ring name s
- Demi Bennett , Rhea Ripley
- Billed height
- 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
- Billed from
- Adelaide, South Australia
- Trained by
- WWE Performance Center
- Debut
- 22 June 2013
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Bennett
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Adelaide
- Spouse
- Buddy Matthews
- Occupation
- professional wrestler
- Languages spoken
- Australian English
- Native language
- Australian English
- Mass
- 77
- Image
- Rhea Ripley (2024).jpg
- Height
- 1.73
- Residence
- Orlando
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- Commons category
- Rhea Ripley
- date of birth
- 1996-10-11
- social media followers
- 774556
- name in native language
- Demiti Bennett
- trained by
- Sara Del Rey
- name
- Demi Bennett
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Encyclopedic overview
Demi Bennett (born 11 October 1996) is an Australian professional wrestler. As of July 2017 , she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Rhea Ripley and is the current WWE Women's Champion in her second reign. She is also a former two-time Women's World Champion. Ripley's first reign as Women's World Champion is tied with Bayley as the longest in the title's history at 380 days.
After competing on the independent circuit under her real name since 2013, Ripley joined WWE and participated in the inaugural Mae Young Classic in 2017. After reaching the semi-finals of the 2018 edition of the tournament, she was part of the original roster of NXT UK, becoming the inaugural NXT UK Women's Champion in August 2018. After a run on the NXT brand from 2019 to 2021, which saw her win the NXT Women's Championship and become the brand's first member to defend an NXT title at WrestleMania, WWE's flagship event, she was promoted to the main roster on Raw where she joined The Judgment Day in 2022.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rhea Ripley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.